But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

We need to see better to be better.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

I still have that new senator smell.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

I think the fascinating - several different pieces of the [Donald] Trump psyche revealed by what happened today and one of them is this decision not to hold more fundraisers.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.